Photography
Lazy Fourth and Road Trip
Jul 6th
We got up and went to Mass on Sunday morning. Well, actually I went to Mass, JJ works in the nursery. We lounged around the house in the afternoon and then went out to pick up some new clothes for our trip this week. Around 9 p.m. we drove over to a parking lot to watch the firework display that Temple Baptist Church was hosting.
A composite shot of some of the rocket's red glare.
Our plan is to leave on Wednesday morning heading to New Concord, Kentucky where we will get to visit with my grandparents and my aunt and uncle. My aunt and uncle are returning home on Thursday and we have plans to stay with my grandparents until Sunday. On Sunday we will head out to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. My good friend has rented a cabin at a resort in Gatlinburg and we plan on staying there until Thursday. On Thursday we will come home via Atlanta. JJ and I are both extremely excited about going through Atlanta as we will stop at an Hmart! I have heard that you can find pretty much every kind of Korean food at Hmart. We have started a huge list of items that we need and we will probably drop at least a couple of hundred dollars on Korean food.
We don’t really know what the agenda will hold for Gatlinburg. I hope to get out and go take some photos and maybe do some hiking as well.
Photo Post
May 8th
Life has been a blur since my last post. Once things settle down, I will have to recap the last month or so. Here are a few photos from the past few weeks. GRE is on Tuesday. Once the test is over, I hope that I will have a little bit more free time. I am pretty serious about checking my Google Reader and I actually have 400 unread posts so you know that I have been busy.(Or follow to many blogs)
JJ has been cooking it up!
Children Portraits
Apr 20th
I got asked to take some photos of some of our good friend’s children. They are preparing for a dance/gymnastics recital next month. The individual shots came out okay, but I was not too pleased with the group shot. See the last photo. I put them in the shade and you can see some distinct shadows on the faces. I had already ordered a light stand and umbrella and it should be here next week. I wish that I would have had it for this little impromptu shoot. I am still working on my color/tone correction. I just can’t get it exactly right. I am learning that it is more and more important to get it right in camera.
Busy with Life
Apr 14th
Cupidity........
The most part of each day is spent brushing up on my vocabulary for the GRE which I am scheduled to take on May the 11th. I am going through a Master Word List in Barron’s GRE Prep book. After every couple pages of words there is a simple test. I have been averaging 12 out 15 on these tests. I am spending most of my time going back through and reviewing the words that I am not familiar with. This week I have also start studying for the Quantitative section. My math skills are ……lacking so this section is going to be my biggest headache.
I am thinking of letting So-Hee take the test for me. She seems to always want to study with JJ.
I have also been applying for numerous jobs but have had trouble finding exactly what I am looking for. I am trying to find a part-time job that will not eat up most of my time but still has a large number of hours per week. I have applied for a couple and waiting to hear back from them. I also have a couple of photography projects that are coming up in the next couple of weeks and even one that I will probably profit from~! I did have a few photos that were used for the new church website. Check it out here!
I also have been slowly recruiting teachers to teach in Korea. I am about 60% finished with my website and still need to fix some bugs and write a few more pages before it goes live!
JJ and I have been trying to cook more and have really stopped going out to eat. Can you tell which meals she cooked?
So-Hee has learned where her food bowl is and has gotten bigger in the last month.
I have a few more posts planned for this week. Expect to see them sometime toward the end of the week.
Project 55
GRE Study Plans
Back to the USA
